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Saul Levine back to classical music

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As of April 4, 2011, classic music returns to the AM band. Standards vanishes again on the ever-changing, format flipping, wheel-o-formats known as 1260 AM.

Don't forget to SPIN THAT DIAL!
 
The retro format will be able to be heard at retro105.com. Anyone else find that curious? Country's days numbered?
 
Maybe Saul will go back to the all Beatle's format, heck , he doing format flips every year and half......
 
Pronkie said:
Maybe Saul will go back to the all Beatle's format, heck , he doing format flips every year and half......
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The All Beatles format was the best. I actually tuned in when I was in the Valley.

As long as he is going to do the format of the month, why doesn't he actually do the format of the month:

January - All Elvis
February - All Motown
March - All Big Bands
April - Music of Your Life
May - All Beatles
June - Jazz
July - Country
August - 50's and 60's oldies (the kind KRTH won't play)
September - AAA/Americana
October - Talk (Election Season)
November - "Billboard" - Any song off the Billboard Top 40 charts from 1950-2000, random rotation without regard to format
December - Christmas

Most of these formats have already been on the wheel and none would be out of place on a Saul station. Then I would have at least one reason to tune in every month.
 
The bigger question......Who Cares?

Classical on an AM might getcha 10-20 regular listeners?....Just a playtoy for Levine.
 
K6JHU said:
"Classical on an AM might getcha 10-20 regular listeners?"

And the other formats got what ????
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Good thing it's going to be on AM so we can hear all the subtle nuances with Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.

RR
 
ChannelFlipper said:
Pronkie said:
Maybe Saul will go back to the all Beatle's format, heck , he doing format flips every year and half......
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The All Beatles format was the best. I actually tuned in when I was in the Valley.

As long as he is going to do the format of the month, why doesn't he actually do the format of the month:

January - All Elvis
February - All Motown
March - All Big Bands
April - Music of Your Life
May - All Beatles
June - Jazz
July - Country
August - 50's and 60's oldies (the kind KRTH won't play)
September - AAA/Americana
October - Talk (Election Season)
November - "Billboard" - Any song off the Billboard Top 40 charts from 1950-2000, random rotation without regard to format
December - Christmas

Most of these formats have already been on the wheel and none would be out of place on a Saul station. Then I would have at least one reason to tune in every month.
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This is a pretty cool idea.

Given our talk on what can save AM radio in Southern California, this could be something.

As for the website Retro105, I believe the format will be on one of the KKGO HD subchannels and streamed online.

Even though the country format as of late is experiencing problems it's still much more lucrative than a 50s/60s based oldies/adult standards station.
 
larkin said:
The retro format will be able to be heard at retro105.com. Anyone else find that curious? Country's days numbered?
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I suspect it is a reference to the fact that the standards is currently simulcast on an existing KKGO-105.0 HD sub-channel as is K-Mozart. He won't blow up the GO-Country format because it is the only thing on either of his signals that has generated much revenue.

But it was past due for another spin of the AM-1260 wheel-o-format. The sad thing is that with their signal it has little chance of attracting significant listeners no matter what. Plus it is AM without the fidelity of the AM I grew up with back in Ohio in the 50s and 60s. WLW was once billed as High Fidelity and they played the kind of music KGIL has been playing for the past couple of years. Also back then many AM/FM combos simulcast and you could flip back and forth with the same programming for a direct comparison.

KGIL should have stayed a Valley station with Valley news and features which wouldn't have made anyone wealthy but it might have had more people regularly tuning in than now. In the hands of someone like the owner of KHTS-AM1220 it could have flown.
 
nmoore6676 said:
KGIL should have stayed a Valley station with Valley news and features which wouldn't have made anyone wealthy but it might have had more people regularly tuning in than now. In the hands of someone like the owner of KHTS-AM1220 it could have flown.
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I could not agree more. AM stations, other than blow torches like KFI and KNX, should go either non-comm or serve a local subset of the metro. Had KGIL stayed in the Valley, perhaps it could have forged a good partnership with the Daily News (paper) and been a good place to tune in for Valley news, sports, weather, features, etc., just like KHTS. Somebody that cares about serving the community could probably do so profitably.
 
Classical music on AM? You've got to be kidding! Classical can't work on AM, even on a 50 kW blowtorch!

We all know classical is fading on commercial full-signal FMs as well. If you want classical music as it should be done, go to the internet or Sirius XM's Symphony Hall for full-length pieces or Sirius/XM Pops for lite classical. :)
 
radioguy39nj said:
Classical music on AM? You've got to be kidding! Classical can't work on AM, even on a 50 kW blowtorch!

We all know classical is fading on commercial full-signal FMs as well. If you want classical music as it should be done, go to the internet or Sirius XM's Symphony Hall for full-length pieces or Sirius/XM Pops for lite classical. :)
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Look at LA KUSC will run this AM staion over very quickly
 
For K-Mozart (soon to be on 1260 AM):

Website: http://www.kmozart.com/
Current "Listen Live" audio player link: http://www.streamaudio.com/player/player.aspx?optin=no&station=KMZT_IR
Current "Listen Live" URL link to plug into various media players: http://1.ice1.sa.streamaudio.com:8000/kmzt_ir.aac
or http://1.ice1.sa.streamaudio.com:8000/kmzt_ir.mp3

For Retro 1260 (soon to be "Retro 105"):

Website: http://www.retro105.com (currently http://www.retro1260.com)
Current "Listen Live" audio player link: http://www.retro1260.com/programming/listen/player.aspx (might change to: http://www.retro105.com/programming/listen/player.aspx)
Current "Listen Live" URL link to plug into various media players: http://1.ice1.sa.streamaudio.com:8000/kgil_am.aac
or http://1.ice1.sa.streamaudio.com:8000/kgil_am.mp3

These links may stay the same or change; "kkgo_fm" of course is already in use for the main FM station (KKGO-FM Go Country) and "kkgo_ir" is already in use for the GoCountryNY stream.
What could happen? If Saul wants to flip 'em around (as he's wont to do), maybe this:
http:.../kgil_am... or (less likely) http:.../kmzt_am... becomes the K-Mozart stream;
http:.../kgil_ir becomes the Retro 105 stream.
We'll see what happens and keep you posted...
 
recto101 said:
radioguy39nj said:
Classical music on AM? You've got to be kidding! Classical can't work on AM, even on a 50 kW blowtorch!

We all know classical is fading on commercial full-signal FMs as well. If you want classical music as it should be done, go to the internet or Sirius XM's Symphony Hall for full-length pieces or Sirius/XM Pops for lite classical. :)
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Look at LA KUSC will run this AM staion over very quickly
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I agree! What's Saul Levine trying to prove? Is he looking for a loss leader? ???
 
Maybe they'd get more listeners/revenue (and maybe stick with a format longer!) if they could get FM translators to fill in coverage gaps for the benefit of those who don't have HD radios (that's about 99.999% of us!) or are not near a computer (such as when driving).
 
Mastaclocksetta said:
Maybe they'd get more listeners/revenue (and maybe stick with a format longer!) if they could get FM translators to fill in coverage gaps for the benefit of those who don't have HD radios (that's about 99.999% of us!) or are not near a computer (such as when driving).
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Don't forget smartphone apps! The market K-Mozart would be seeking is upscale, has lots of disposable income and likely owns a smartphone and probably a car that has an auxiliary jack for such purposes. :)
 
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